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O'Connor was born and raised in Edinburgh, Scotland. Growing up, Frankie was obsessed with games and played Pong, 2600, Intellivision, Vectrex, ColecoVision, Sinclair Spectrum, Atari 800, Commodore 64 and so on, up to and including the Xbox 360, as each was released.

He was able to parlay his love of video games into a writing career that involved working at a number of video game magazines, including Ultimate Future Magazine, TOTAL! Nintendo Magazine, and Official Xbox Magazine. He then was taken on by Bungie Studios as content manager for the Halo franchise. When asked about his typical day at the office, Frankie told HIH:

I'm content manager, which really means, spare monkey. That means I do everything from writing the manual, helping marketing with materials, running the website and going on trips to incredible places, to shoveling pimp turds out of Marty's recording booth. Seriously. Pimps are way worse than cart horses.

Frankie: An enormous cat. Seriously, 22 pounds of rippling feline blubber. In fact, rippling is his only form of exercise.

Anything else you'd like to tell us about yourself?

Frankie: I am foreign. Like Balky. Or maybe more like Groundskeeper Willie. Also, I have an enormous tattoo of the Scottish flag on my right shoulder, underneath which is inscribed, "Scotland Forever." On account of how stupefyingly awesome Scotland is. Eventually, when the Scottish Empire has finally secured world peace and total domination of the globe, you will appreciate it.

O'Connor reprised his role as the character Beamish in the 343 Industries video supporting the ALS research also known as ALS Ice Bucket Challenge. O'Connor, staying in character at all times, is seemingly unhappy when he finds water and ice cubes all over the place. Beamish, being the Janitor in the webseries Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn, mops and cleans the backyard while a tune of FUD's soundtrack can be heard in the background.[3]